Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Resisting Surveillance
Articles on Resisting Surveillance:
David Lyon, "Resisting Surveillance" from Surveillance After 9/11
John Gilliom, Resisting Surveillance
Documentary and Reality TV
Rodney King Video
Final article on the intersection of documentary film and Reality TV (Susan Murray, "I Think We Need A New Name For It: The Meeting of Documentary and Reality TV") here. Enjoy.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Documentary History III + Paper Assignment
Find the list of films and the guidelines for the paper here.Readings:
From Jack C. Ellis & Betsy McLane's A New History of Documentary Film
English-Language Documentary in the 1980s: Video Arrives
English-Language Documentary in the 1990s and Beyond: Reality Bytes
Carl Plantinga, Gender, Power, and a Cucumber: Satirizing Masculinity in This Is Spinal Tap
Sheila Petty, Silence and Its Opposite: Expressions of Race in Tongues Untied
Julia Lesage, Feminist Documentary: Aesthetics and Politics
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Pop Music Readings
Assuming that at this point you are (basically) all done with the Garofalo textbook, here are the reading assignments up to the end of the semester:
On 'co-optation':
Thomas Frank's "Commodify Your Dissent" here.
On Jamaican Music:
from Dick Hebdige, Cut'n'Mix here.
On Gender:from The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock:
Sara Cohen, "Popular Music, Gender and Sexuality"
Simon Frith and Angela McRobbie, "Rock and Sexuality"
Simon Frith, "Afterthoughts
"Richard Dyer, "In Defense of Disco"
Find these articles here as a single PDF file.
On 'sub-cultures':
Here are the Dick Hebdige chapters from Subculture: The Meaning of Style. Refer back to the Punk: Attitude film screening.
On sampling, mash-ups and the 'postmodern turn':
Andrew Goodwin, "Sample and Hold"
E Ann Kaplan, "A Postmodern Play of the Signifier?"
Negativland, "from Wired: Negativland Interviews U2's The Edge"
Also, to clarify (or further obscure) 'postmodernism' please help yourself --in case you have not encountered it in your other studies-- to Fredric Jameson's "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"
Surveillance, Reality TV and Celebrity Culture
Here are the readings for this week's discussion. Tie the readings to our initial discussion on Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure.
Vincent Pecora, The Culture of Surveillance
Nick Couldry (from Media Rituals), Live Reality and the Future of Surveillance
David Samuels, Shooting Britney
(also find this in html format here directly from The Atlantic Monthly website. nb. includes slide show on 'The Celebrity Hunters' not in the pdf file)
A couple of extra readings for those who are thinking of working on these issues for their final papers:
Nick Couldry (from Media Rituals), Mediated Self-Disclosure Before and After the Internet
Mark Andrejevic, The Webcam Subculture and the Digital Enclosure
Paper Assignments: Pop Music and Film
Here are the final paper assignments for the Pop Music and Intro to Cinema classes. Server problems seem to have been resolved so check back for readings in the next couple of hours.
Second POP MUSIC paper assignment.
Second FILM paper assignment.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Signs and Meaning
Mieke Bal, Semiotics for Beginners
Scott McCloud, from Understading Comics: Chapter 2, Semiotics
Jonathan Bignell, Media Semiotics: Introduction + The Cinema
Social Sorting and Premediation
These are the readings relating to our section on 'social sorting' and 'premediation'. Required readings are the first group of articles. Second group are highly recommended for further research. Also, everyone please read this recent article from The New York Times for class discussion --find it here.
Lyon, Everyday Surveillance: Personal Data and Social Classifications
Gandy, Race, Ethnicity and the Segmentation of Media Markets
Grusin, Premediation
Turow, Cracking the Consumer Code:Advertisers,Anxiety and Surveillance in the Digital Age
Tinic, (En)Visioning the Televisual Audience: Revisting Questions of Power in the Age of Interactive Television
Gandy, Data Mining, Surveillance and Discrimination in the Post 9/11 Environment
De Goede, Beyond Risk: Premediation and the Post 9/11 Security Immagination
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Bordwell on Art Film
Chapter from David Bordwell's Poetics of Cinema on the "art film" here.
Also, to accompany the screening of Agnes Varda's Vagabond:
Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
You can also find it in html format here.
Roger & Me
Two articles to accompany your reflections on the formal and ethical aspects of Michael Moore's Roger & Me (1989).Miles Orvell, Documentary Film and the Power of Interrogation
Matthew Bernstein, Documentaphobia and Mixed Modes: Michael Moore's Roger & Me
Rock Readings
Frank Zappa & Captain BeefheartSimon Frith - Rock and Popular Culture
Simon Frith - "The Magic The Can Set You Free": The Ideology of Folk and the Myth of the Rock Community
Lester Bangs - Various Record Reviews from Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Reebee Garofalo - Popular Music and the Civil Rights Movement
The Count Five, Psychotic Reaction
Friday, March 13, 2009
Watchdog
Jon Stewart takes on CNBC's Jim Kramer about the social responsibility of the financial media. This is the 'uncensored' version. Watch the whole thing and have a comedian show you what it means to be the 'fourth estate'.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
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